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PERSONS ARE GIFTS

Persons are GIFTS…

At least Jesus thought so: “Father, I want those you have given me to be where I am.” I agree with Jesus… and I also want those the father has given to me to be where I am.

Persons are GIFTS…

Which the father sends me to wrapped! Some are wrapped very beautifully; they are very attractive when I first see them. Some come in very ordinary wrapping paper once in a while there is a “Special Delivery!” some persons are gifts which come very loosely wrapped, others very tightly.

But the wrapping is not a GIFT!

It is not so easy top make this mistakes… it is amusing when babies do it. Sometimes the gift is very easy to open up. Sometimes I need others to help. Is it because they are afraid? Does it hurt? Maybe they have been opened up before and thrown away! Could it be that the gift is not for me?

I am a person. Therefore, I am a gift, too! A gift to myself, first of all. The Father give myself to me. Have I really looked inside the wrappings? Afraid to?

Perhaps I’ve never accepted the gift that I am… could it be that there is something else inside the wrappings than what I think there is?

Maybe I’ve never seen the wonderful gift that I am?

Could the Father’s gift be anything but beautiful?

I love the gifts which those who love me give; why not this from the Father?

And a gift to other persons.

Am I willing to be given by the Father to others?…a man for others?

Do others have to be content with the wrappings…never permitted to enjoy the gift?

Every meeting of persons is an exchange of gifts. But a gift without a giver is not a gift; it is a thing devoid of relationship to giver or givee.

Friendship…

Is a relationship between persons who see themselves as they truly are: gifts of the Father to each other for others…brothers!

A friend. . .

            Is a gift not just to me but to others through me…

When I keep my friend-possess him- I destroy his “gift-ness.”

I lost it; If I lose it for others, I save it.